As a python user group leader and when I run workshops, I deal mostly with beginners, particularly from humanities and social sciences. I found it helpful to list off resources in a "study guide" format so students could follow along rather than just work through a book. I don't really like just pushing a book onto people because it isn't always the best way some people learn. I also reordered some of the lessons because I disagreed a bit with things.
I put together a mashup study guide of a variety of resources for Python and put it up here: http://elizabethwickes.com/guided-self-study-lesson-plan/ I know several people who have worked through it and I've used it as a syllabus for a multi-week workshop. Greg, I can volunteer to help out with this. I can't speak to all the domains that SWC and DC work with, but I have a lot of opinions about having just presenting people with a wall of books. Elizabeth On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:57 AM, Greg Wilson <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I think some recommended readings and links to places to look for next > steps would be very useful - the question is, who will maintain it? ( > http://software-carpentry.org/bib/reading.html was always meant to be a > community resource, but we only ever had a couple of contributions once I > set it up.) If someone would like to volunteer to be a "readings and > links" maintainer, similar to the lesson maintainers who oversee our > lessons, that would be a great way to contribute. > > Cheers, > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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